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Hot air balloons over dunes at dawn<\/p><\/div>\n

I love this sketch. I saw a photo by Soe Zeya Tun for Reuters that was of exactly this subject and topic as part of a photo piece at http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/05\/lighter_than_air.html<\/a> and decided that the image would be easy to emulate in Inkscape. (Apologies to Soe Zeya Tun)<\/p>\n

In Inkscape, I created the dunes by creating 4 rectangles and converting them to paths and tweaking them into hilly shapes. I added increasing levels of blur to each receding ridge to add atmospheric depth and distance. I then created a single balloon complete with basket and connections, and when I was happy with it, I duplicated and resized two more.<\/p>\n

The really great thing about creating this image from scratch is the ultimate control of placement and composition that Soe had to rely on the balloon pilots to provide for her.<\/p>\n

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I love this sketch. I saw a photo by Soe Zeya Tun for Reuters that was of exactly this subject and topic as part of a photo piece at http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/05\/lighter_than_air.html and decided that the image would be easy to emulate in Inkscape. (Apologies to Soe Zeya Tun) In Inkscape, I created the dunes by creating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[76,1411,365,411,865],"class_list":{"0":"post-711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-arts","8":"tag-calligraphy","9":"tag-graphics","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-vector-based","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-bt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":522,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/04\/21\/group-pink-balloons-released-dark-sky-cc-lemasney\/","url_meta":{"origin":711,"position":0},"title":"A group of pink balloons released into a dark sky cc-by lemasney","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-04-21","format":"image","excerpt":"A group of pink balloons released into a dark sky cc-by lemasney","rel":"","context":"In "brand"","block_context":{"text":"brand","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/consulting\/brand\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A group of pink balloons released into a dark sky cc-by lemasney","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100421gaggleofballoons.png?fit=495%2C495&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/27\/188-of-365-is-about-appearances-in-inkscape-angels\/","url_meta":{"origin":711,"position":1},"title":"188 of 365 is about appearances in #Inkscape #angels","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently got a request from repeat requester and friend Shannon who asked about a sketch thusly: Challenge:Punked out angel wings, with the caption \"I only LOOK like an angel\" Inspiration: A white, fluffy fru-fru dog who's well-deserved nickname is Punk (owned by a good and mutual friend of ours\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "portfolio"","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Looks like an angel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":711,"position":2},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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